Officer Cross. Service and Love Colonel General Staff

Full of drama is an official romance with elements of sensual eroticism - this is how the retired colonel, journalist and writer Viktor Baranz can be characterized. It was written in the best traditions of socialist realism, with knowledge of all aspects of life - from purely military to intimate (which was so lacking in the writers of the late USSR, who turned both socialist realism and the production novel into a dreary agitation of the decisions of the "party and government").
Viktor Baranz’s book through actions and feelings of people in uniform and without gives an accurate cut of the state of the army and defense industry during the Serdyukov reforms.
Stormy and by no means a platonic novel of the protagonist unfolds against the background of intrigues and corruption in the leading missile -building enterprise in Russia. Figuratively speaking, the delicate moans of the colonel’s beloved woman regularly drown out the formidable rolls of the launch engines of combat missiles. The two main lines of the novel - service and intimate - as two main motivators of male life, then weaved, then diverging, and do not give up to the very end of the answer to philosophical questions: what is the balance in the officer soul between the matter and the woman? Between honor and passion? Between the soul and body?
Maybe the reader will be able to find these answers in himself?